Mississippi · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA
ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($26,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $910k
What Association of Alternative Newsmedia does
Mission
Aan helps its members grow by promoting editorial excellence, improving journalism and business performance, supporting marketing and advertising, increasing awareness of alternative media, and advocating for the media industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (aan) is a diverse group of 110+ local and independent news organizations covering many major metropolitan areas and other less-populated cities and regions in north america. Aan members reach active, educated, and influential adults in their local markets in the united states and canada. In addition, millions of readers view aan-member content via the web and mobile devices. The association held its annual convention for member publishers with an emphasis on education, conversation and idea sharing. Publishers talked about the opportunities they see in their markets and their plans to take advantage of those opportunities to improve their economic resilience and reach more readers with their content.
$93,925 spent$160,708 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn partnership with the alternative newsweekly foundation (anf), aan participated in the tech transformation lab developed by the google news initiative project to select participants to receive funding.
$210,000 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,925.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $731k to $910k (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Todd Stauffer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alternative Newsweekly Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alternative Newsweekly Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA?
- ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($26,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing